Call for Papers: “Metacognition: Its Role in Learning, Development, and Psychological Functioning” for a special issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science
Deadline for Submissions: March 4, 2019
We are opening submissions for consideration for a special issue titled “Metacognition: Its Role in Learning, Development, and Psychological Functioning.” This special issue is part of an innovative journal, titled Translational Issues in Psychological Science, co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS).
“Metacognition: Its Role in Learning, Development, and Psychological Functioning” will be published as the first issue of the journal’s sixth year, due out in March 2020. For this issue, the Editors will consider manuscripts across a broad area of psychological research on metacognition including but not limited to such topics as:
- Contributions of metacognition to disciplinary learning and academic success
- Metacognition in technology-enhanced learning environments
- Metacognitive development across the lifespan, especially in early childhood and later adulthood
- Relations between metacognition, motivation, and self-regulation
- Metacognition in addictive behaviors
- Metacognitive functioning in individuals with mental disorders
- Metacognitively-oriented psychotherapy
- The neuroscience of metacognition
- Assessment of metacognition
- Metacognition in professional development
Manuscripts submitted to TPS must be co-authored by at least one psychologist in training (graduate student, postdoctoral fellow), should be written concisely for a broad audience, and focus on the practical implications of the research presented in the manuscript. For more information about the journal, including detailed instructions to authors, visit the TPS website website (http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tps). Please feel free to forward this correspondence to interested colleagues and the psychologists-in-training with whom you work.
Linda Baker, Ph.D., Special Issue Editor
Mary Beth Kenkel, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief